Attachment for mail-boxes



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ATTACHMENT POR MAIL BOXES. No. 410,905. Patented Sept. 10, 1889.

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R. B. LEWIS. ATT-AGHMENT POR MAIL BOXES.

10.410,905. Patented Sept. 10, 1889.

FEL-qll- UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

ROBERT B. LEWIS, OF NEIV YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR OF TWO TI-IIRDS TO HARRYV. SNEAD, OE SAME PLACE, AND WILLIAM B. FONDA, OE MOR- RISTOVN, NEWJERSEY.

,f ATTACHMENT FOR MAIL-BOXES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters APatent No. 410,905, datedSeptember 10, 1889.

Application filed February 14, 1889. Serial No. 299,838. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern.-

Be it known that I, ROBERT B. LEWIS, a citizen of the United States,residing at New York, in the county and State of New York,

have invented certain new and useful Improvements in AttachmentsforMail-Boxes, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is an improved package or newspaper boX attachment forletter-boxes;

1o and it consists in novel features of construction, hereinafterdescribed, and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification,Figure I represents in perspective my attachment applied to the ordinaryletter-box. Fig. II is a top view. Fig. III is an end elevation, thecover being shown open in dotted lines. Eig. IV is a vertical sectiontransverse of the attachment 2o on the line IV IV, Fig. II.

1 represents an ordinary letter-box fastened to a lamp-post or othersupport in the customary manner, and having usual convex top 2.

3 is a receptacle for third and fourth class matter, applied to the topof the ordinary letter-box, and having a concave bottom 4t to correspondwith the top of the latter, so that it may be held securely in placewhen an ordinary shackle or clamp 5 is passed around 3o the lamp-post orother support. The top G of the back of the box 3 is curved forward, soas to eifectually prevent the entry o'f'rain to the rear of the box. Thecurved cover 7 has its hinges 8 placed suliiciently to rear of the topto prevent any rain from entering the box. The cover 7 has alinger-piece 9, whereby it may be lift-ed by the postman or personwishing to put mail into the said additional box.

The upward movement of the cover is limited by stops l0, against whichshoulders 1l 4o on the cover abut and prevent the passage of its centerof `gravity beyond the plane of the hinges, so that when the cover isreleased it will fallby gravity to closed position.

Having thus described my invention, the followingis what I claim as newtherein and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

l. An attachment for mail-boxes, consisting of a receptacle 3, havingits back formed with a curved top 6, adapted to shed water 5orearwardly, a cover 7, hinged in rear of the front edge of the curvedtop, and a stop arranged to arrest the cover before the center ofgravity of the latter passes over its hinge, so that the cover will fallautomatically to closed position when released after being raised,substantially as described.

2. An attachment for mail-boxes, consisting` of a receptacle 3,havingits back formed with a curved top 6, adapted to shed water rear-6o wardly, a cover 7, formed with shoulders ll at its ends and hinged inrear of the front edge of the curved top, and the stops 10 on the endsof the receptacle, to which the cover is hinged and against which theshoulders l abut to arrest the cover before the center of gravity of thelatter passes over its hinge, so that the cover will fall automaticallyto closed position when released after being raised, substantially asdescribed.

ROBERT E. LEwIs.

Witnesses:

JOSEPH B. BRAMAN, JOSEPH C. BRAMAN.

